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What Aniruth really showed the students during an event usually reserved for professional adults is that having drive and tenacity — even before having your driver’s license — pays off.
Aniruth is truly an overachiever.
He teaches a competitive mathematics course at USF and won the Global Classrooms Initiative Model at the United Nations Conference in New York.
Duke University feted him for his high SAT scores.
Aniruth is a champion debater, a Toastmaster supreme and a leading voice on the Hillsborough County Youth Leadership Council .
The students soaked up every word from Aniruth. That includes one fifth-grader named Seth who was trying to conquer his nerves at public speaking.
With a pep talk from Aniruth, the pre-teen stood in front of his class and spoke with conviction. When he was done, Seth, with his new pal Aniruth by his side, received a big round of applause.
Dr John Hui Keem Peng has drawn attention to the importance of senior doctors acting as positive role models for medical students ("Provide positive work culture for young doctors"; Tuesday).
Unfortunately, the exodus of experienced specialists to the private sector will lead to younger doctors losing their teachers and role models.
Working conditions at restructured hospitals can be tough. Apart from the heavy patient load and time spent on research, medical practitioners are buried under a pile of paperwork.
If senior doctors are not freed of unnecessary work so that they can concentrate on their clinical and teaching duties, they will eventually leave.
Even if working conditions in restructured hospitals are equitable and reasonable, many medical specialists succumb after seeing how lucrative the move to the private sector can be.
There is, undoubtedly, money to be made in private practice.
The push to make Singapore a regional medical hub also makes the transition from public service to private practice such an inviting proposition.
Many young doctors aspire to become specialists, build up their reputation, and then venture into private practice.
Since this natural progression seems almost inevitable for most young specialists, their mentors must remind them to be always guided by their conscience when managing patients.
Singapore may not be able to compete as a regional medical hub for long, as our neighbours remain significantly cheaper, even as they acquire new capabilities and modern facilities.
In order to stay ahead of the competition, we need to go into research and perfect new skills.
Since opportunities for research are limited in the private sector, progress can be made only in teaching hospitals possessing a meticulous peer review procedure, with principled teachers and mentors.
Universal Pictures announced release dates for a slew of movies today. Among them: The Baltasar Kormakur-directed 3D adventure Everest is set for February 27, 2015, and Legendary Pictures’ haunted house pic Crimson Peak, from helmer Guillermo del Toro, is due October 16, 2015. Everest, Working Title’s mountain-climbing disaster pic backed by Cross Creek and Walden Media, is set to go up against Focus Features’ Ryan Reynolds sci-fi thriller Selfless. Crimson Peak, which saw Benedict Cumberbatch exit the lead role and be replaced by Thor baddie Tom Hiddleston, has the 2015 pre-Halloween weekend to itself for now. As for this year’s trick-or-treat fare, the horror pic Ouija — inspired by the Hasbro board game — will come knocking October 24, battling for screams against Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 5. Also due in 2014 are Legendary’s As Above, So Below (August 15), from director John Erick Dowdle, and the Liam Neeson thriller A Walk Among The Tombstones (September 19). The sequel Pitch Perfect 2, which added Elizabeth Banks as director this week, opens May 15, 2015. The studio also set a new working title for the formerly-a-mouthful Untitled Illumination Entertainment 2016 Project 1. Now a more descriptive and manageable Untitled Pets Project, its date remains February 12, 2016. Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart are making their animated-feature debuts in the 3D pic about what your pets do when you leave the house.
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff was joined by close to 300 friends and supporters as he celebrated his 50th birthday Hawaiian-style at The Castaway Luau Grounds this past Thursday. Accompanied by his wife, Eve, and children, Alexa and Elijah, the five-term congressman joined Hawaiian dancers Andrea "Ku'uipo" Savopolos and Kealii Chang in welcoming guests, posing for photos and performing a traditional Hawaiian dance.
Among those who enjoyed the evening of Hawaiian-themed food and entertainment, and then joined in for a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday to Adam," were Burbank Vice Mayor Jess Talamantes and his wife, Sandy, Councilman Dave Golonski, Glendale City Councilman Frank Quintero, Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, E. C. Krupp, who serves as the director of the Griffith Observatory, Glendale College Board of Trustee Members Tony Tartaglia and Anita Gabriellian, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, and Burbank Park, Recreation and Community Services Board Member Todd Layfer.
Born in Framingham, Mass., a half-century ago, Schiff received a political science degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard University. Prior to his election to Congress he worked as an assistant prosecutor in the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office and was a member of the California State Senate. Sent to Washington in 2001 by those he represents in Pasadena, South Pasadena, Glendale and Burbank, Schiff currently sits on the House Appropriations Committee and the Judiciary Committee. He also holds positions on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Intelligence Oversight Panel.
Other special guests at Thursday's celebration, that was coordinated by Patricia Horton, included NBC-4's Dr. Bruce Hensel, former-Burbank Leader Editor Paul Hubler, who once served as Schiff's chief of staff and is now the director of government and community relations for the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority, and Schiff's staff members Mary Hovagimian, Yvonne Hsu, Terry Valdez, William Syms, Margarita Gutierrez, Teresa Lamb Simpson, Elizabeth Vuna, Ann Peifer and Kathleen Miles.
Among the others who donned fashions that represented the Hawaiian motif and came to impart their best wishes to Schiff were Dawn Lindsay, Ray Peifer, Dean and Lori Hartwell, Rich O'Toole, David and Vangie Gutkind, Stan Friedman, John Tanner, Alex and Joyce Baghdassarian, Mark Foster, Harry Knapp, John Gunn, Steve Goorvitch, Susan Hunt, Ricky Choi, Pearl Fu, Odom and Kate Stamps, Bill Crowfoot, Steve Nissen, Maya Zutler, Scott Svonkin, Phil Cohen, David Fertig, Alicia Gallagher, Tom Inman, Harry and Sally Baldwin, Lee Wochner, Michael Cacciotti, Gene Campbell, Martin and Jane Chetron, John Drayman, Tom and Elizabeth Eilers, Bob and Diane Gin, Dave and Sherry Grannis, Renatta Cooper, Robin Amundsen and Shelly Burell.
NORTH ADAMS — Familiarity may or may not breed contempt. It can certainly breed lack of imagination. Photography has never been more ubiquitous. A chicken in every pot never happened — thanks to cellphones, a digital camera in every pocket or purse pretty much has. Why would anyone, including artists, feel a need to rethink anything so common and useful? Yet that very ubiquity makes fresh responses to the medium all the more useful, and fresh responses are what three shows at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art offer.
“Clifford Ross: Landscape Seen & Imagined” reminds us that photography involves seeing by two parties: the photographer, and the viewer of the photographs taken. There’s nothing remarkable about this fact, except that Ross makes it so through his use of scale. Much of the show runs through March. Another portion, the “Hurricane Wave” series, runs through Aug. 30. In addition, an “immersive outdoor video installation,” as Mass MoCA describes it, will be on display most Thursday and Friday evenings between June 26 and Sept. 4.
That video display isn’t the only thing immersive about Ross’s work. Simply described, “Sopris Wall I” is a photograph of Mount Sopris, in the Colorado Rockies, flanked by trees, with a small body of water in the foreground. That description, while accurate enough so far as it goes, goes nowhere near far enough to give any sense of the experience of seeing “Sopris Wall I” in person.
“Wall” is in the title, rather than “mountain,” for an excellent reason. The displayed image — a photographic negative printed on wood panels — fills the entire wall of a double-height gallery. The image is 24 feet high and 114 feet wide. Its being a negative rather than positive, and the textural effect of the wood, make the image appear more like curtain than photograph, with the world behind it as stage. The sheer fact of the image existing as a physical thing may be the single most impressive thing about it. Materiality, as well as scale, encourages rethinking of what photography is — or can be.
By comparison, “Mountain IV,” a positive print of Mount Sopris, looks demure at a “mere” 6 feet by nearly 11 feet. It’s like one of the enormous 19th-century landscape paintings of the American sublime by Albert Bierstadt or Frederic Edwin Church. There’s a key difference, though. Ross takes his photographs with an ultra-high-resolution camera of his own design. It’s able to capture detail with an ability surpassing that of the human eye — or “mere” human eye, to use again a word that comes in handy when writing about Ross’s work.
Such detailing raises questions about the relationship between reality and abstraction. Those questions are underscored in Ross’s “Harmonium” series, where he presents a small portion of the larger image of Mount Sopris on a far more manageable scale. “Harmonium VII,” for example, is roughly 4 feet by 3½ feet. Ross also prints them with a single dominant color superimposed — red or green or yellow — so the relationship is as much between unreality and abstraction. Divorced from standard perspective and context, they resemble Chinese painting.
Ross’s “Hurricane” series consists of large black-and-white images of surf. It emphasizes the interplay of reality and abstraction even more powerfully. The intensity of detailing — Ross’s apparatus almost functions as part camera, part microscope — makes the images seem less oceanic than Abstract Expressionist. Turbulence becomes stasis, creating a Zen urgency — or should that be frenetic stillness? The photographs are shown apart from the rest of the show, in an old attic space, with a low wooden ceiling. Its wonderfully expressive rafters and beams are to driftwood, one might say, as Ross’s photographs are to actual surf.
“If [these] ‘Hurricane’ images are successful,” Ross writes, “there should be a feeling of both anxiety and wonder instilled in the viewer. The still image should have the same effect on the viewer that the actual waves had on me.” That’s a very tall order for a mere (that word again) two dimensions to fill. It’s impressive how close these extraordinary images come to doing so.
The title of “Artists’ Choice: An Expanded Field of Photography” makes plain its innovative intent. Both it and “Liz Deschenes,” the third photography show, run through April. There are six artists in “Artists’ Choice,” and it was Deschenes who chose them. Her show consists of five large freestanding wooden frames surrounding monochromatic acrylic. If Abstract Expressionism informs Ross’s waves, Minimalist sculpture doesn’t so much inform as define these works.
In “Artists’ Choice,” Dana Hoey’s video installation, “Fighters,” puts the viewer in the ring with her pair of female pugilists, the video projected on all four walls. Miranda Lichtenstein has five photographs from her “Screen Shadows” series and a video, “Danse Serpentine (doubled and refracted).” For the former, she takes mundane objects and photographs them silhouetted and only partially visible behind various papers. They have a bewitching beauty far removed from the chill austerity of Deschenes’s work or, in “Artists’ Choice,” that of Sara VanDerBeek, Craig Kalpakjian, and Josh Tonsfeldt. Randy West’s gridded “Edge of the Cloud” is austere and chilly too. But in its relationship to Alfred Stieglitz’s “Equivalents” cloud studies of nearly a century ago, it connects with a photographic past in trying to use the photographic present to redirect a photographic future.
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Taiwan’s domestic politics, particularly presidential elections, has been the main driver of the island’s relations with China for two decades. The 2016 elections, in which the Democratic Progressive Party, led by Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, won both the presidency and majority control of the Legislative elections, promises to be no exception. Although PRC intentions under President Xi Jinping are far from certain, some change from the state of play under the current Ma Ying-jeou administration seems fairly certain, with implications for U.S. policy.
Richard Bush is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He came to Brookings in July 2002 after nineteen years working in the US government, including five years as the Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan. He is the author of a number of articles on U.S. relations with China and Taiwan, and of At Cross Purposes, a book of essays on the history of America’s relations with Taiwan, published in March 2004 by M. E. Sharpe. In the spring of 2005, Brookings published his study on cross-Strait relations, entitled Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait. In 2013, Brookings published his Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Taiwan Democracy Project in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative in the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
What might well be called President Obama’s State of the Union soak-the-rich tax proposal included a surprising exception: a significant increase in potential capital gains taxes on the sale of inherited assets would spare charitable giving from the effects of the proposed change. In this modest concession, the President, who has long sought to rein in the value of the charitable tax deduction, is, for the first time, demonstrating a willingness, even as he proposes to raise other taxes, to hold steady the favorable tax treatment of a key type of charitable giving—one which, in fact, appears to be of increasing importance in maintaining or increasing the level of U.S. charity overall.
The details are these. In proposing to change what the White House is calling the “trust fund loophole”, the Obama tax proposal would end the current practice of assigning a “stepped-up basis” to assets such as stocks which are inherited as part of an estate. In other words, if one inherited Apple stock that was purchased in 2003, when it cost some $6 a share, one might, under current law, sell it at today’s roughly $110 per share price without being taxed on the increase in share value—as if, in other words, one had bought it oneself at $110. The President would end that “step-up”—with the notable exception of assets inherited by charitable organizations, which could sell the Apple shares without paying the capital gains tax on their increased value.
It’s an important “carve-out” for reasons both practical and philosophical. Significantly, one of the fastest-growing means of charitable giving is particularly well-suited to managing inherited assets—not just stocks but art collections and other valuables on which capital gains might be owed. That vehicle for giving is called a donor-advised fund—an account into which cash or other assets can be moved and then dispersed, over time, only for charitable purposes. Notably, the numbers of such accounts have been sharply growing since they’ve been offered by some of the largest national financial firms which cater to personal investors: the charitable arms of Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab . It’s a simple matter for such firms to move stock holdings from brokerage or retirement accounts to charitable accounts—which are all under the same roof. Since 2007, the number of individual donor-advised accounts at National Donor-Advised Funds, including those firms, has increased from 72,590 to 112,170, while the value of assets held in the accounts grew from $11.11 billion to $24.82 billion. Such growth helped keep charitable giving in the U.S. relatively constant in the U.S., even in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Whatever its electoral consequences, the Obama “carve-out” is an important departure for the President. Since taking office, he has, for instance, consistently proposed to limit the value of the personal deduction for charitable giving to 28 percent of a donation’s value —even as the top personal income tax rate as risen to 39 percent. It’s a change—never enacted—that Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has estimated would reduce personal charitable giving by fully $9 billion. ( Total U.S. personal charitable giving stands at around $230 billion.) . For the first time, the President has proposed to maintain a tax incentive for charitable giving, even as he would increase other key tax rates on the wealthy—who are key charitable donors.
This is more than a technical point. In effect, Obama has previously asserted, at least implicitly, that government can make better use of funds that would otherwise be directed to charity. That’s the logic of capping the charitable deduction—which, although it reduces taxes on those who itemize their returns, does not provide wealthy donors (nor any others) with any personal benefit. By redirecting to government funds that would otherwise be bound for charities, Obama has been acting on the assumption that government can spend those funds more effectively. By proposing, in contrast, to maintain the “stepped-up basis” rule for assets inherited by charitable non-profits, the White House has made a key concession: charities can make use of capital at least as well as Washington. Some of us, of course, think charities—which I like to think of as our national venture fund, investing in the unconventional and the imaginative—are, at the very least, a key complement to government, and, in many cases, a better alternative. In a modest but significant way, President Obama’s State of the Union surprise shows he may agree.
Re: Joe Guzzardi's View From Lodi Column: What Does The Class of 2002 Know?
"And what is the value of a high-school diploma if a senior doesn't know the cause of the Civil War?"
If the student knows the politically correct "cause" of the Civil War—slavery—and not the real cause – the inequitable tax burden on the South and the growth of the Federal Leviathan at the expense of states' rights—he may be worse off for his false knowledge.
Certainly, at the time, the British did not believe that slavery was the cause. And, by reading President Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with Horace Greeley, Lincoln did not believe that he was warring on the South to free the slaves, either.
As for political correctness and the Civil War, consider historian John Clark Ridpath's statement that: "Slavery was the occasion, but not the cause, of the war."
Lucheta is an engineer. He was born in the South.
A brilliant century from James Flecknell helped Eaton Bray cruise to victory over New Bradwell in Division 1.
After a top order collapse, Flecknell, coming in at five, hit 101 as Eaton Bray rescued their innings to post 211 all out.
But they needn’t have worried as New Bradwell suffered a collapse of their own, skittled for just 112.
In Division 2, Eggington Foresters were undone by some fine batting down the order for North Crawley 2nds as they lost by 58 runs.
Despite having the hosts 60-4, North Crawley rescued their innings by setting 264-6.
In response, wickets fell regularly, despite Suhail Ahmad’s 62 and Rizwan Khan’s 68 as Eggs were all out for 206.
James Bailey’s 69 for Milton Bryan(175) couldn’t help them to victory over Old Bradwell (178-4).
In Division 3, Ivinghoe & Pitstone (81) were crushed by Printers (189).
Eggington Foresters 2nds came up agonisingly short of a draw against Westcroft 2nds in Division 4.
Chasing 244-8, Eggington were bowled out on the penultimate ball for 131.
Wing with Wingrave (220-8) drew with Drayton Parslow (188-8), while Milton Bryan 2nds (97) were beaten by Whitchurch (98-1).
Great Brickhill 3rds (166) bowled brilliantly to beat North Crawley 3rds (70) in Division 5, while Eaton Bray 2nds (120-9) held on to draw with New Bradwell 2nds (180-9).
In Division 7, Leighton Buzzard 3rds secured a thumping victory against Wilden 2nds by 231 runs.
The home side won the toss and an opening stand of 127 set the pattern for the innings. Brad Gates( 59) was the first casualty and was soon followed by Matt Gurney (4) Ben Turley(16) and Callum Kidney(0).
However opening bat Alex Brown was in superb form. He batted throughout Leighton’s innings and ended on 136 not out which included 20 boundary fours and a six.
Jacob Turley (43 not out) was also in good form with 7 fours and a six as 68 runs were added from the last 6 overs. Town totalled 271-4 from their allotted 44 overs.
The visitors were then bowled out for just 40 runs, and half of those were the extras.
Elsewhere, Wing with Wingrave 2nds (76) lost to Aspley Guise 3rds (78-8).
Former England striker Gary Lineker admits Greg Dyke's vision to improve the national team will be "pie in the sky" unless the Football Association and Premier League unite to tackle the issues in the domestic game.
FA chairman Dyke delivered a keynote address on Wednesday, describing the English game as "a tanker which needs turning" and setting an ambitious target for England's senior team to win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
To get there, Dyke wants to work with the Premier League to increase the proportion of England-qualified players featuring in the top flight on a weekly basis, and Match of the Day presenter Lineker believes it is vital for the Premier League to buy into Dyke's vision for the plan to succeed.
Dyke conducted a round of media interviews on Thursday morning following up on his speech, and believes the Premier League understands the need for change without any pressure being exerted upon it.
Dyke, who took over as FA chairman in June, said on talkSPORT: "I'm not sure I need coercive powers. I think the Premier League understands it is in everybody's interest to have a successful England team.
A mid-season break is commonplace on the continent, but it has never been introduced into English football despite lobbying from key figures.
"In terms of Brentford, Uwe Rossler played a long time. I'm not against foreign managers. If you've got a league which is largely foreign owned, largely foreign managed and mainly foreign players you've got an issue for English football."
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Bad laws are like viruses. If one city or state passes a stupid, heavy-handed law, the whole country gets the bug. Take New York's new bill that would ban driving while talking on a cell phone, unless the cell phone is hands free or the call is an emergency call to authorities. GOP Gov. George Pataki said he'll sign the bill, passed overwhelming by the state legislature. His spokesman, Michael McKeon, explained, "It's a commonsense piece of legislation that's going to make our roads safer." Try instead: a Quinnipiac University poll showed that 87 percent of New Yorkers liked the idea. And so, another dumb law is born. Watch the other 41 states considering similar laws rush to pass their own pandering measures. Common sense? That would dictate that lawmakers concerned about car accidents caused by distracted drivers would pass a law to ban those behaviors that cause the most accidents. The American Automobile Association -- which urges drivers to pull over to make cell phone calls -- studied crashes involving 32,303 cars between 1995 and 1999. The study found that drivers were most likely distracted by things happening outside the car (29.4 percent). The second most frequent distraction was adjusting a car radio, cassette or CD player (11.4 percent), followed by distraction by another occupant (10.9 percent), a "moving object" in the car (4.3 percent), adjusting other car controls (2.8 percent), eating or drinking (1.7 percent), using or dialing a cell phone (1.5 percent) and smoking (less than 1 percent). Which means that if New York pols put common sense first, they'd outlaw radios in cars first. "You should ask these people: What if they said to you that you can't drink a cup of coffee in a car?" AT&T Wireless spokesman Steve Crosby argued. Or you could only drink through a cup-holder and a long straw. "You can't legislate everything," was McKeon's answer. Really? Looks like New York is taking a stab at it. Common sense also would dictate that New Yorkers would want a law based on research. But as AAA's Atle Erlingsson noted, "The current research says it's not the device that's the problem, it's the conversation that's the problem." A different study found that drivers were as distracted when talking on hands-free phones as handheld phones. Common sense? That should tell you what Crosby noted: "Some people can multitask, some people cannot." Common sense? Try: Just because some soccer mom in a sport utility vehicle drives poorly while using her cell phone, that doesn't mean that a state should outlaw cell phone use by commuters stuck in gridlock on bridges and toll plazas. Alas, it seems Americans are so dismissive of liberty and personal responsibility that many are ready to outlaw activities because they find some practitioners distasteful. Including themselves. You just know that some of those 87 percent of New Yorkers dial and drive. They could just stop doing it. But noooo. In their weasel hearts, they're shouting: "Stop me before I drive with my cell. Make me do what I will not do on my own." It's pathetic. It's especially pathetic that people feel virtuous supporting a stupid bill that doesn't even go after the major causes of distraction accidents. Virtue, these days, means supporting even stupid laws because it shows how well-intended you are. If you support something that might save one life -- or might not -- then you are entitled to pass laws that deprive people of their freedom. The cell-phone people think pols wouldn't dare, say, outlaw switching the radio while driving. They're only picking on cell phones because cells have become a symbol of a kind of affluent arrogance. But once it gets into voters' heads that other people abuse their radios, it could be adios to AM and FM.
Qualcomm has announced its new Snapdragon 410 processor, aiming to bring faster data connection and faster performance, thanks to 64-bit technology, to emerging markets.
The Snapdragon 410 chip has integrated "4G LTE World Mode", meaning it will work with 4G LTE data standards in emerging markets, and essentially all 3G and 4G standards worldwide. Qualcomm called China a prime target for the chip, as the country's 4G LTE network is set to boom when the world's largest carrier China Mobile unveils its 4G LTE network in mid-December. There will even be dual and triple SIM card support on the chip for customers who are constantly traveling.
Additionally, the Snapdragon 410 chip is the first in the flagship Qualcomm line to bring 64-bit technology along, meaning the powerful Adreno 306 GPU can be used, bringing 1080p video playback and up to a 13-megapixel camera to budget smartphones. Qualcomm is following Apple's lead by leaping to a 64-bit chip, and says it has many more 64-bit chips to come.
The chip brings along the usual smartphone features of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM and NFC functionality, and supports all major navigation constellations. GPS, GLONASS, and China’s new BeiDou. Android, Windows Phone and Firefox are among the supported operating systems for the chip.
In November, Qualcomm saw a negative stock market reaction when sales of its chips for high-end smartphones began to flatten. It illustrated a key point that Qualcomm needed to seriously consider the budget smartphone market, and with the Snapdragon 410 processor, the company appears to be doing so.
Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 410 processor will be seeded to smartphone manufacturers in the first half of 2014 and released to customers in the second half of 2014.
A wash of noise reminiscent of Loveless-era My Bloody Valentine introduces one of the strongest tracks on Dirty Side Down, the latest effort by the jam-band road warriors in Widespread Panic. The track wasn’t written by John Bell and company; it’s a cover of “This Cruel Thing” by the late Vic Chesnutt, complete with delicately plucked guitar and a thoughtful croon that perfectly evokes the longtime Panic collaborator. The rest of the record trades on greater complexity and more varied instrumentation—like the alternately hard-driving and ethereal opener, “Saint Ex,” or the title track, which layers a friendly growl over insistent slide guitar that’s initially content to echo organ riffs, but occasionally launches skyward and into the album’s meatiest hooks.
Some of the best songs in Panic’s catalog are about life on the road, and “Shut Up And Drive” marks another worthy addition, marrying a propulsive, brushed beat to down-home guitars that break for shimmering solos. Then the gears catch and the song lurches back onto the highway. Dirty Side Down is an uneven record at times, but given that the band has been hard-pressed to reproduce the energy of its live performances in the studio, Down’s nimble rhythmic shifts and the playful lead-guitar work of Jimmy Herring provide a zip sorely lacking on the last two releases.
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It's beyond freezing here in NYC and while the desire to look "cold weather cute" is a thing, we're about this close to wearing a down comforter outside and calling it a day—not kidding. But then Carrie Diaries cutie AnnaSophia Robb put together this 'shearling coat/olive green skinnies/brown harness boots' look and suddenly we felt inspired to try again. So thank you AnnaSophia and bring it on winter—we're ready!
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ENGLAND goalkeeper Ben Foster is close to a comeback with West Bromwich Albion.
Foster has not played since the second game of the season because of a stress fracture to his right foot, but Baggies boss Steve Clarke says he is now almost fit again.
That will give Foster a chance of making the England squad for the World Cup.
West Brom are away to Cardiff on Saturday , followed by a home game with Hull, two games the Baggies need to win to pull themselves out of a slump.
Victor Anichebe is out of the Cardiff fixture because of illness but Nicolas Anelka is fit and Scott Sinclair is recovered from hamstring trouble.
“We expect a tough game, as I’m sure Cardiff do,” said Clarke.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Police said a body was found while a search was going on for missing 22-year-old Denise Martin.
Around 9 a.m., investigators conducted an area search in the Redmill area related to the active missing person’s case of Martin.

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